Food for Thought: Use music to give praise to God

Do you like good music? There is something about music that stirs everyone of us. When music is playing, you find people nodding their heads to it, patting their feet, clapping their hands, swaying their bodies or mouthing the words. Music attracts people.

When bands begin to play, you see crowds start to come from different directions to gather and listen. In my years here on Earth, I watched as music has changed; there is country, gospel, rock, rap, blues, jazz and so many other types that I can't list. Then, from each of these types of music, you find variations of hard, screamers, regular, ganister and so forth.

Where did music start and what does it accomplish?

In our pictures of heaven in the Bible, we find angels and seraphim's singing "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty." Throughout the Bible, we find people singing unto the Lord of his glory, power and Might.

David would play for King Saul when Saul was troubled, and the music would calm him down. David was known as the musician of the Bible, and the Book of Psalms has a lot of songs that David sang unto the Lord.

The devil in this World has taken the music scene and spread his message of death and destruction. He causes songs to be written and performed that advocates drugs, alcohol, sex, murder, rioting, anti-police, rebellion from parents, governments and many other types of destructive behavior. After the devil gets through using his artist to do his work, he then kills them with overdoses, suicide, murder or committing crimes and being locked away in prison. The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy, and he uses music to help in his plans.

We need to use music to help in carrying out the plans of God. God wants us to worship him, and music is a way that we can tell God how much we love and appreciate what he does for us. Worship comes from our heart, and with the mouth the heart speaks. So if we are truly thankful to God for what he has done for us, then let the mouth sing those praise unto God.

You may do like I do sometime, just let the words come from my heart unto the Lord with a tune that comes with it. You may find a song that someone else has performed that says what you want to say to God and sing it to him. I know what you may be saying to yourself: "I can't carry a tune and I don't want to run God away from me by the way I sound." But don't worry. God tells us that he looks upon the heart and knows its intentions. So when you worship him with music, whether on key or off, God smiles and loves every bit of it. God just wants us, his children, to love and worship him for all that he does for us.

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Food for Thought: Use music to give praise to God

Ps 66:2 (NKJV) 2 Sing out the honor of His name; Make His praise glorious.